I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids.